Quotes of: George-w Keyword

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Europe

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

The Book of Hard Truths: 16 Facts of Life We Should Learn to Accept

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

Colton Haynes

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Patch Adams

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Ben Katchor

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.

Anna and the French Kiss

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Leaving Town Alive

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman